How do you find out if the field intelligence portrayed in espionage novels or spy movies is realistic?To find the answer, you need to look at what the characters are actually trying to achieve. That may sound obvious, but in my experience, as soon as words like surveillance, surveillance detection, and counter-surveillance enter the conversation,… Read More Surveillance, Surveillance Detection & Countersurveillance
Our new Hostile Activity Prevention E-learning course is now live. This unique, three-hour course teaches actionable, time-tested methods of prevention, detection and disruption of hostile activity. Based on Israeli methodologies of terrorist activity prevention, adapted to fit most environments and risk levels, the training isn’t merely theoretical. It covers the actual methods we’ve been successfully… Read More Hostile Activity Prevention
“Intuition is always right in at least two important ways;It is always in response to something.it always has your best interest at heart”-Gavin De Becker. Quite a few years ago, I was working at a very prominent Jewish facility in the San Francisco Bay Area when I spotted a suspicious-looking man on the opposite side… Read More False-Positive
Let me give you a candid glimpse, taken from direct experience, into EP aspects you don’t usually hear much about. I’ll even go a step further and share a few photos I took on actual EP operations (all taken during breaks or down-times, I hasten to add), and show you a tiny bit of the… Read More Executive Protection
I recently had the privilege of being invited to the third annual Physical and Cyber Threat Convergence Forum in Phoenix, Arizona. I previously wrote what’s become a very well-read article about this important initiative. Here comes the next one. It was initially surprising to discover that many in the information/cyber security sector envy us in… Read More Human Cyber-security
I recently published an article about writing and publishing a book, which contains lots of tips and suggestions that also apply to article writing. But having managed a successful security blog, reaching several hundreds of thousands of readers all around the world, here are a few insights that are more specific to blogging. Blog Platform… Read More Tips & Suggestions For Security Writers
This article will detail a number of ways in which houses of worship can better protect themselves from deadly attacks. It applies to any house of worship and any religion, from mosques, churches and synagogues to temples, shrines and any other type of religious gathering place. I don’t just want to give you some general,… Read More How To Protect Houses of Worship
Many people might find it surprising but much of the field-craft that goes into such things as surveillance detection and special protective operations—even some of the sexier stuff—can be applied in your own life as well. For example, the three-part article series about Circles of Security (part 1, part 2, part 3) I wrote a… Read More Applying Covert Field-craft in Your Daily Life
What follows are proven, practical methods to protect Jewish organizations that have been developed over many years of hands-on experience in this field. My experience in protecting Jewish organizations doesn’t just come from being born and raised in Israel and serving in the IDF. I’ve been professionally involved in protecting Jewish and Israeli organizations, facilities,… Read More How To Protect Jewish Facilities
The following article is taken from Chapter 2 of my book Surveillance Zone. The book gives you an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look into the mysterious world of private-sector espionage, surveillance detection and covert protective operations. Before I get into the real meat of the book, I thought I’d take a little time to let you in on my… Read More Prologue – My Unconventional Background
